Issue 9.4 Information
This issue of Mosaic contains the following:
Literary Humour of the 19th Century
R.G. Collins opens this special issue of Mosaic with an essay titled “Nineteenth Century Literary Humor: The Wit and Warmth of Wiser Men?” in which the central question is: What is humour? In this issue we find essays that together provide a broad survey of nineteenth-century humour, with titles including: “Martin Chuzzlewit: The Novel as Comic Entertainment,” “Wayward Wisdom: Wordsworth’s Humor in Lyrical Ballads,” “Dickens: The Smile on the Face of the Dead,” and “Faun and Satyr: Meredith’s Theory of Comedy and The Egoist.”
14 essays
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232 pages
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$15.00 CAD
R.G. Collins opens this special issue of Mosaic with an essay titled “Nineteenth Century Literary Humor: The Wit and Warmth of Wiser Men?” in which the central question is: What is humour? In this issue we find essays that together provide a broad survey of nineteenth-century humour, with titles including: “Martin Chuzzlewit: The Novel as Comic Entertainment,” “Wayward Wisdom: Wordsworth’s Humor in Lyrical Ballads,” “Dickens: The Smile on the Face of the Dead,” and “Faun and Satyr: Meredith’s Theory of Comedy and The Egoist.”
Nineteenth Century Literary Humor: The Wit and Warmth of Wiser Men?R. G. Collins |
Romantic Humor: The Horse of Knowledge and the Learned PigMarilyn Gaull |
Sporting Humor in Victorian LiteratureCoral Lansbury |
Spitting Blood and Writing Comic: Mid-Century British HumorRoger B. Henkle |
Wayward Wisdom: Wordsworth's Humor in the Lyrical BalladsThomas H. Helmstadter |
Martin Chuzzlewit: The Novel as Comic EntertainmentAlbert J. Guerard |
Nicholas Nickleby: The Victories of HumorMargret Ganz |
Dickens: The Smile on the Face of the DeadFrederick Busch |
The Rose and the Ring: Quintessential ThackerayJuliet McMaster |
Gilbert's Fun With ShakespeareRichard R. Reynolds |
Faun and Satyr: Meredith's Theory of Comedy and The EgoistRobert S. Baker |
James Fenimore Cooper's Elegiac Comedy: The PrairieEdwin Haviland Miller |
Mark Twain's Implicit Theory of the ComicDavid Karnath |
Humor in the Nineteenth Century: Decline and FuelJohn R. Clark and William E. Morris |